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a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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March 16, 2006

Surprise!

Found at Endment, who found it at harmonyinline: You Should Be A Poet You craft words well, in creative and unexpected ways. And you have a great talent for evoking beautiful imagery… Or describing the most intense heartbreak ever. You’re already naturally a poet, even if you’ve never written a poem. What Type of Writer… Continue reading

Quizzes

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August 16, 2005

Jane Austen Action Figure!

Trust scribblingwoman to find the only action figure I have ever coveted. And oh, I do! Continue reading

Noticed

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March 2, 2004

A Writer Is . . .

"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." Thomas Mann . . . as quoted in The SUN Continue reading

Quotes, Writing

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Ancestral (Artificial )Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is how I think, and I prefer to do it myself. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

I have changed this from Artificial to Ancestral, after Abi Awomosu @ Substack. This medium was made with human history, human thought. All of it, bright and dark. It is ancestral.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

writer

Surprise!

Jane Austen Action Figure!

A Writer Is . . .